Getting real

I was watching an old sci-fi film this morning. A botanist arrived in the US with a Yeti, which he had captured in Tibet, and ran into some customs jobsworth, who decided that because some journalist had called the creature a “Snowman”, he needed an expert opinion on whether he should be asking the alleged “man” for a passport. It was about then that I realized why we have a public sector and quangos – to give people like that a place to go during the day when people doing a proper job are getting to grips with the real world.